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Cases don’t get much colder than Ramses III

In this week’s Medical Discovery News with UTMB’s David Niesel and Norbert Herzog: Episodes of popular TV series like “CSI” and “NCIS” often show detectives and forensic scientists solving cases that have been cold for years. But how would they solve a crime committed more than 3,000 years ago? That’s exactly what scientists aimed to do for King Ramses III, the second pharaoh of the 20th dynasty, who ruled Egypt from 1186 to 1155 B.C. The column also appears in the Galveston County Daily News.